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slipjig3So! Yes! I've moved!
The background, for those not in the know: I'd been living at Praxis, the Watertown apartment of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
primal_pastry and her three increasingly-less-wee ones; the family recently moved to a new house in the area, leaving the apartment to me, which sadly I couldn't afford on my own. Meanwhile, fellow Watertownian fiddle_dragon recently found her new dream house with her sweetie zeyr out in Natick, leaving her roommate wired_lizard wanting to stay in their lovely apartment but without someone to pick up half the rent. Furthermore, figmentj, is finishing up her last year at Mount Holyoke, but although she has a paid-for dorm room there she has increasingly begun finding the Boston area to be more of a home than Over Yonder. And finally, she and I are planning our wedding for a year from now (literally, a year from today!), and would like to make a home for ourselves at that time, but want to make something as close to an us-home as we can in the meantime even though we can't afford a place to ourselves just yet.
Long story only marginally less long, we've moved in withwired_lizard as of Sunday, with me here full-time and figmentj here on weekends and days off and whenever else is convenient, crashing at the dorm only when necessary.
Needless to say, the last week or two has been banana-f*ck crazy, even when you don't figure in my dad's week-long visit from Chicago not too long ago. We started hauling stuff over on Sunday and helped getfiddle_dragon's stuff out, along with zeyr, sindrian and yendi [please note: formally submitting all four aforementioned LJ users for sainthood status immediately]. Then sindrian and shadesong popped back over on Monday to finish lugging furniture upstairs, and then figmentj headed to Natick to help a bit with unloading the Moving Truck o' Hugeness before swinging by Praxis to fetch Lucy "Pantywaist" Cat. Yesterday was a bit more subdued as I'd managed to anger the gods of calf muscle maintenance by throwing staircases at them for several hours, but I did do a bit of lifting and lugging to feel all accomplished and stuff.
And then there was today. Today was my first IKEA trip ever. Yeahhhh. This really deserves its own post to tally the loot, which was acquired through a combination ofwired_lizard's savings, a belated tax return and a check from my dad, but suffice it to say that I determined somewhere in there that IKEA needs to be a verb, which would enable me to make the perfectly accurate statement "we IKEAed all over everything."
It was in IKEA, however, that we, the three residents of this apartment, decided that the apartment shall henceforth be known as "Sven Inga Byxor," which is Swedish for "Sven Without Pants." You may now express your deep abiding envy.
The background, for those not in the know: I'd been living at Praxis, the Watertown apartment of
primal_pastry and her three increasingly-less-wee ones; the family recently moved to a new house in the area, leaving the apartment to me, which sadly I couldn't afford on my own. Meanwhile, fellow Watertownian fiddle_dragon recently found her new dream house with her sweetie zeyr out in Natick, leaving her roommate wired_lizard wanting to stay in their lovely apartment but without someone to pick up half the rent. Furthermore, figmentj, is finishing up her last year at Mount Holyoke, but although she has a paid-for dorm room there she has increasingly begun finding the Boston area to be more of a home than Over Yonder. And finally, she and I are planning our wedding for a year from now (literally, a year from today!), and would like to make a home for ourselves at that time, but want to make something as close to an us-home as we can in the meantime even though we can't afford a place to ourselves just yet.Long story only marginally less long, we've moved in with
wired_lizard as of Sunday, with me here full-time and figmentj here on weekends and days off and whenever else is convenient, crashing at the dorm only when necessary.Needless to say, the last week or two has been banana-f*ck crazy, even when you don't figure in my dad's week-long visit from Chicago not too long ago. We started hauling stuff over on Sunday and helped get
fiddle_dragon's stuff out, along with zeyr, sindrian and yendi [please note: formally submitting all four aforementioned LJ users for sainthood status immediately]. Then sindrian and shadesong popped back over on Monday to finish lugging furniture upstairs, and then figmentj headed to Natick to help a bit with unloading the Moving Truck o' Hugeness before swinging by Praxis to fetch Lucy "Pantywaist" Cat. Yesterday was a bit more subdued as I'd managed to anger the gods of calf muscle maintenance by throwing staircases at them for several hours, but I did do a bit of lifting and lugging to feel all accomplished and stuff.And then there was today. Today was my first IKEA trip ever. Yeahhhh. This really deserves its own post to tally the loot, which was acquired through a combination of
wired_lizard's savings, a belated tax return and a check from my dad, but suffice it to say that I determined somewhere in there that IKEA needs to be a verb, which would enable me to make the perfectly accurate statement "we IKEAed all over everything."It was in IKEA, however, that we, the three residents of this apartment, decided that the apartment shall henceforth be known as "Sven Inga Byxor," which is Swedish for "Sven Without Pants." You may now express your deep abiding envy.
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Date: 2011-08-18 04:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-18 05:49 am (UTC)It worked! I didn't even buy meatballs. I was amused by a product called a "frack," though.
Good on you for getting in!
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Date: 2011-08-19 04:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-18 10:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-19 02:52 pm (UTC)